Latin, does this. It's a bit of an unidiomatic construction, but roughly translated into Latin, you get: > Ioannes Davido occurrit. Hunc occurrere illi placet.

Latin, does this. It's a bit of an unidiomatic construction, but roughly translated into Latin, you get: > Ioannes Davido occurrit. Hunc occurrere illi placet. Here it's clear that hunc refers to Davidus, since that's the closer name in the sentence, and illi refers to Ioannes, since that name sits further out.